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View this email in your browser Weekly December 4, 2019 Week At A Glance WED 12/4 7:30 am Men’s Breakfast—Auburn 10:00 am Welcome Center Lunches—O 6:00 pm Soup Supper—FR 7:00 pm Colfax High School Chamber Choir—S THURS 12/5 9:00 am Bible Study - FR 3:45 pm Confirmation - WB SAT 12/7 10:00 am Gingerbread - Advanced Home Construction - FR 2:00 pm Gingerbread - Family Fun Time - FR SUN 12/8 Second Sunday of Advent 9:00 am Pre K - 5th Youth Ed - EB 9:00 am 6-12th Youth Ed - O 9:00 am Inquiry Class - O 9:00 am Adult Ed - FR 10:00 am  Morning Worship Service with Anointing for Healing 11:30 am Decorating the sanctuary Christmas tree - S MON 12/9 9:30 am Labor of Love - FR 2:00 pm MS TGI meal prep - Auburn 5:45 pm MS TGI meal service - Auburn TUES 12/10 3:30 pm Band II—EB 4:30 pm Band I—EB 6:45 pm Adult Choir - EB WED 12/11 7:30 am Men’s Breakfast—Auburn 10:00 am Welcome Center Lunches—O 6:00 pm Bible Study - O 7:00 pm Youth Led Advent Evening - S   Altar Flowers Needed for December 8, 15, and 29. If you can provide them on Dec , 8 please call Susan Bennett-Freitas at 53-913-9066. Upcoming Birthdays Clay Cowan  12/6 Austin Cole  12/12 Kurt Oberbruner  12/12 John Van Auker  12/15 Nathan Warren  12/16 Jacqueline Royer  12/21 Jennifer Wood  12/21 Tony Freitas  12/23 Noel Kuhlmann  12/26 Jason Cole  12/28 Niccole Pitz  12/29     Upcoming Anniversaries Ed & Anita Norton  12/16   Ways To Give and Serve Lay Task Schedule Welcome Center Lunch Schedule Firestarters—will be available for sale after worship this Sunday, Dec 8 in the Fireside Room. Gail makes the firestarters by recycling candle wax from used candles. He melts it down and molds it into paper forms that easily light to start a fire. Gail has plenty of wax for this year but if you want to donate used candles, you can bring them to the office. Contact Gail Parn for more information. Prosper Placer  helps low income families address poverty at its holistic core - social, emotional, physical, spiritual and financial - through education, goal setting, connection to opportunities and advocating.  Prosper Placer utilizes volunteers and natural community supports to empower families living in poverty to move into the middle class. Low-income families become the “Change Leaders”, creating their own goals to move their family out of poverty.  Community members, called “Allies”, work alongside these Change Leaders over a 2 year period. Mark Achen and Colleen Hogan have been working as ‘Allies’ within this program.  We meet most Monday nights to assist in the implementation of our family’s goals. We share a family meal together, then their kids go to childcare or homework tutors and we meet with the adults for 90 minutes. Please ask Mark or I if you’d like more information or encouragement in this important ministry.  It seems like a daunting commitment, but  I really look forward to ‘Monday nights with my family’! Need…. As mentioned above, we share a meal (6 pm) with our family before the meeting.  Pastor Charlane has coordinated a few meals for us in 2019. Generally, a simple meal is served for 40 - 60 from the  Pioneer United Methodist Church in Auburn. Placer Prosper reimburses costs with a target goal of $2/per person. Leftovers are packaged up and sent home with the families.  We have been asked to prepare and serve on 6 Mondays in 2020. Pastor Charlane will coordinate this calendar. A team of 2 -3 is sufficient. Please check in with her if you can help. Colleen 368-7315 Announcements What in the world is Molly Hogsett doing in Tanzania?? Molly has been serving with the Peace Corps since July of this year. Here are some of her postings from Facebook: July 13: Today I walked around the capital of Tanzania and it was a lot. A lot of food. A lot of heat. A lot of buses. A lot of dust. A lot of tall buildings. Churches. Billboards. Ferries. Waste. Abundance.  August 7: So fun story, I went to church here in Tanzania...It starts with me hiking with a friend through fields of corn...I was invited to dance in the aisles and to sing songs in Kiswahili. Towards the end, someone bid on a single egg for me to bring back to my family. So I got back to my homestay in an outfit my mama gave me that didn’t quite fit...still clutching my shawl and the plastic bag with a single egg inside. Three hours of music and dancing and psalms. And it’s one of those moments that I am clutching onto for dear life because I know it was important and beautiful and scary.  September 29: Today’s fun times included About seventeen unintelligible conversations in Kiswahili 3 different buses 2 hours to cook pilau (spiced rice) at a friend’s house 2 cups of chai And ½ bag of tomatoes thrown at the seat next to me that ended up hitting me in the face.  October 9: While serving, I have cried a handful of times...Anyways, [today] I cried over breakfast. I cried while drinking tea. Then it started to rain and I slogged through the mud yet again to teach. And the kids were unruly and it was rainy and loud. So l left in a huff after class and hid under my blankets. And then I heard a knock on my door. It was two of my youngest students wondering if I could still help them learn English. So I did. We sat on my front porch and I taught them about verbs and then they invited their friends up to eat lunch with me. So we did. We ate lunch...And then one of the older students came up to my porch and asked if I had seen any blessings today. And I was thinking like a big blessing like a birth of a baby or something so I said, “no, not today.” And she pointed at the rain and said “that is a blessing for many.” And then I was struck that I can miss my family and be angry at the students and love them all at the same time. That I can hate rain and appreciate its life giving properties.  (For the month of November, Molly was without a phone and was “radio silent”) December 2: Since I have been phone MIA...here are some highlights from my month away from technology:  I learned how to properly make Tanzanian flatbread and then helped female teachers make about 60 of them for visitors. I wrote my first math tests for students who were wildly unprepared and therefore got scores of 0-20. I successfully make pumpkin bread on a charcoal stove. I helped push a coach bus out of a muddy ditch while it poured rain on us. I got lessons on the tribal language from the younger students, and they are very excited to help make me a ‘dictionary.’ I am excited to see what December has in store, and I am admittedly happy that I have a fixed phone and access to 4G internet for a couple of weeks.   (used with permission)   GINGERBREAD HOUSE WORKSHOPS we bake, you decorate! part of Homes for the Holidays  a fundraiser for youth programming. Print the registration form below and return it to the church office along with your payment!   REGISTRATION FORM More information on the church website. 2019’s Gingerbread Workshop Schedule Saturday December 7 10-1 Advanced Home Construction…Add a porch, weather vane or your own decorative flair to your house or barn...learn about interior supports and creating stable additions. Included in the class fee is a house or barn to construct. Additional structures are available for purchase. Bring your own lunch. 2:00 Gingerbread Time…A little bit of mayhem and a whole lot of fun…. Make one house or one for every member of the family and create a great memory while experienced builders lend support. All ages are welcome. Sunday, December 8, Gingerbread Bake Sale during coffee hour around 11. Gingerbread to decorate, yummies all ready to eat! Help support our youth. Kits for houses available as well. Pre order to ensure availability. Growing Places recently held a culmination event. Three small groups had completed 6 sessions on various topics under the theme of "Aspiring to a Life of Meaning.  Here are several comments from some of the participants: "Small groups fostered more real relationships at a deeper level of being" "Prayers being lifted up were so helpful and part of an important privilege" "The experience always carried me forward and energized me" Many thanks to all the facilitators and participants who made these small group opportunities a possibility.   Inquiry Class—Got questions? Join Pastor Charlane for conversation and exploration. Thinking of becoming a member? This class is for you! Don’t think you want to formally “join” the church but have some questions? This class is for you! We will talk about how Lutherans are just like other Christian denominations AND how Lutherans are a bit different, what makes Faith Lutheran a GREAT community, and any other topics that people bring to the discussion. December 1, 8, and 15, (Sundays) 9 am in the office building. NEW TAI CHI CLASS   Beginning January 7th 2020 Tuesdays 10:30AM (1hour)   Faith Lutheran Church Hall Meadow Vista Off Combie Road Easy to learn, simple movement systems to strengthen the mind and the body. Relaxing/Refreshing, enjoyable to do. 4 week monthly courses $40 Ongoing FIRST INTRODUCTORY CLASS IS FREE EVERYONE WELCOME!   Cathleen Rickard, certified instructor 808-895-1350 *Half price for all military Veterans Drop in OK Youth Talk Planning to come to the December 11 Wednesday night Advent service “Lights Out” ? Please bring a flashlight or camp lantern to use during the service. If you are joining in on giving a gift of light to participants...ornaments, candles, kind messages, glow in the dark items… email Stacy Hogsett  youth@faithmv.net. Thank you generous Faith Lutherans! All the stockings were filled and all the present tags returned. Bringing light into the lives of others! Wanting to know who might want to go skiing, tubing or snowboarding on a Saturday in February. Sol is looking to buy group tickets and get a bunch of us on the slopes. Interested maybe? Sign up sheets will be in the Fireside Room and Wheaties Box Faith In Action Gingerbread Homes for the Holidays! The first Sunday of Advent. Faith Lutheran Church 1115 Combie Road Meadow Vista 95722 530.878.1870 Copyright © *2019* *Faith Lutheran Church of Meadow Vista*, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 1115 Combie Road, Meadow Vista, CA   95722 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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